Jing Zhao Yin, Bin County.

There is no gate for Sizhou to enter the state, because there is no need for a gate to enter the state.

There are only a few roads leading from Sizhou, and these official roads running north-south are surrounded by east-west mountains, so there is no need to assume that the passes here are not so much roads as valleys.

Entering the valley is always a dangerous place.

A large banner fluttering with the words "Wudu Taishou Dong" fluttered, and thousands of sergeants marched on the narrow official road. The forest was full of galloping Liangzhou scouts marching quickly, and there were always flying horses on both sides of the official road, and the ears were full of military orders roared out in hoarse voices.

They had entered the territory of Xihe County, and from this point on, danger and fighting could occur everywhere.

The former army of the governor led the way with Niu Fu and Li Dao, Niu Fu broke an arm and could no longer leap the horse and raise the sword to establish meritorious deeds, but except for Dong Zhuo, no one in the army together knew the land of Bingzhou better than him, the overseer and the state for twelve years, this man with a broken arm spent his whole life in the cool side, and no one knew the opportunities and dangers of this land better than him.

Moreover, this war was not a war for him, for the sake of turf, for fame, or for the sake of justice.

This is his battle for revenge.

"Spotting the enemy watchtower!" Pegasus' scouts hurried back and told Ushisuke that there was a kiosk in front of him, and that there were more than a dozen merger troops stationed in front of him.

This is already the third pavilion they have passed, this area is strictly guarded by the people of the state, almost a few miles will meet the soldiers in the pavilion, these soldiers of the state Niu Fu did not have the slightest pity, waved his hand and said: "Touch it, kill them!" ”

Niu Fu didn't forget what he left Liangzhou for, it was revenge, and it was the war that drove him out of Liangzhou...... It's not a wide range of blessings!

In one day, the army marched for seventy miles, and the army pushed straight to, Changwu County, Xihe County.

"Tell Niu Fu that this is not a place where he can be stationed, let him sprinkle scouts to find a place to camp, Xihe Taishou should have received the news, and it is likely to launch an attack tonight." Dong Zhuo is very clear, the army marched seventy miles, and Niu Fu pulled out nearly ten pavilions in the middle, and the people of Bingzhou were not so stupid, the news must have spread a long time ago, and it was impossible to say that Xihe Taishou had already reported the news at this time, and organized the troops of various counties to defend it. "Let the babies be smart, and the people of Bingzhou are not so stupid."

Dong Zhuo's estimate is good, and the army of Xihe County is indeed on the way.

Since the Liangzhou army entered Sanfu, Cui Jun, the Taishou guarding Xihe County, has received the news that Cui Jun, the Taishou, is not like his brother Cui Jun, who is not literate, and he is not a martial artist as early as Liu Hong, and he enjoys great prestige among the officials of the court, whether it is training troops or fighting, he has his own set of rules. It's just that when Ma Yue entered Luo, it was when Cui Zhouping transferred Xihe Taishou, otherwise this person could also shine.

Just as Dong Zhuo was looking for a place to set up camp, Cui Jun personally led 900 county soldiers to reinforce Changwu County, and the soldiers and horses from other counties also gathered towards Changwu. The terrain of the state is special, Xihe County is surrounded by the valley as a whole, Changwu falls in the southernmost part of Xihe County, located in the valley, as long as Changwu is not broken, Xihe can be protected, if Changwu is broken, the whole Xihe County will be a flat river, and the idle city is difficult to pose a threat to the notorious Liangzhou army. Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to call the upcoming battle in Changwu County the battle of Liangzhou against Bingzhou.

That night, Dong Zhuo's troops recuperated and rushed to the ladder and the city-breaking hammer. Dong Zhuo, who is well versed in the art of war, understands the meaning of the speed of the soldiers, and it is only right to take advantage of the fact that the reinforcements have not yet taken Changwu, and it is only right to defend the city and pose a threat to the state!

In the early morning of the next day, the Xiliang army officially launched an attack on Changwu City.

Accompanied by the loud military music and the sound of thunder drums, the Liangzhou foot soldiers carried a huge conical log towards the south gate of Changwu City step by step, and the light cavalry on both sides had gone around the east and west gates to surround but not attack, while guarding against the reinforcements of the county seat, but also guarding the city gate to prevent the enemy from protruding from the side gate.

The scouts of the Liangzhou army had already crossed the city and Pegasus and rushed farther north.

The war had not yet begun, and they did not know how many reinforcements there were in the city.

The foot soldiers walked to three hundred steps, and the archers defending the city threw out scattered arrow rain, Dong Zhuo squinted his eyes at the figure and arrow rain at the head of the city, rubbed the scar on his nose, and roared with a cruel smile: "There is no one in the city, the babies charge, capture the city and plunder it for three days, give it to Lao Tzu!" ”

There were only four or five hundred scattered arrows, so what threat could such a few people pose to them? The direct assault was that with Dong Zhuo's roar, the Liangzhou infantry ran and charged.

The city-breaking hammer smashed heavily on the city gate, and the sergeants pushing the barricade behind the gate were all knocked to the ground, and the clods of earth fell straight to the hole in the city gate.

A series of ladders were erected at the head of the city, and the Liangzhou man climbed up with a knife desperately, even if the defenders smashed the sheep and stones to death, it was still difficult to smash these enemies.

"Quick, give Lao Tzu the head of the city!"

Dong Zhuo grabbed the horsewhip and waved it in the air, with crazy pleasure on his face, attacking the city, a man's luck!

"Boom!"

In less than half an hour, the Xiliang army killed the head of the city, and the south gate was finally overwhelmed by the city-breaking hammer.

The scouts outside the city ran desperately towards the south gate, although the Liangzhou army had captured half of the city, he had already seen the traces of the Bingzhou army team.

Dong Zhuo galloped into the city, the horsewhip had been replaced with a thick ring knife, looked at the burning houses and muttered with a cruel smile on his face: "Niu Fu'er, Niu Fu'er, let this city turn into hell on earth!" ”

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On the fifth day of the fifth month of May, the Ma Yue Chinese Army led the Ma Chao Department under the mountain to be stationed in Huayin.

In the early morning, Ma Yue and Cheng Lijia Xu Ma Chao and more than 100 soldiers climbed Huashan Yu.

As the saying goes, Huashan has a road since ancient times, this road is Huashan Yu, built in the Western Han Dynasty, there are no steps on the mountain road of nearly 1,000 feet, but it is the small pit that the ancestors chiseled out with a cone that can put down half a foot soles, so it goes straight to the sky.

There is a Huacang at the foot of the mountain, which was built by Emperor Xiaowu of the Han Dynasty during the time of the first Han Dynasty, and it was an important grain storage warehouse in that year. With the beginning of Wang Mang's rebellion and the relocation of the capital to Luoyang, Huacang was abandoned step by step, and now it is just an ordinary warehouse in the land of Jingzhao. However, when the Liangzhou army entered the customs this time, it could reopen Huacang as the main granary in Huayin and Tongguan.

Although Huashan Road is steep, it is not impossible to climb, but it is difficult to climb to the top.

Ma Yue and others climbed to the mountainside, just looking up at the sky, a line of heaven open; Looking down at the foot, such as the abyss, suddenly in the mountain road to see a stone stele, the stele to extremely work to repair the official book to write, is for the Huashan stele.

Huashan stele, engraved in the Eastern Han Dynasty Xiping eight years, seal carver Yingchuan Handan repair.

When reaching the top, Ma Yue kept thinking about the two strategists around him. When he was in Liangzhou, Jia Xu was inside the house, Cheng Li was outside, and everything was quite harmonious. When the army left the customs, it seemed that there were various problems within the soldiers and horses in Liangzhou, among which the most nervous thing was that Cheng Li did not see him in many places, and it was not until the Chinese army was stationed in Huayin that he met Cheng Li.

Although at every step, Cheng Li's saddle ran in front of him, Meiyang County did not spend a single soldier, and Chang'an County was also Du Ji personally dedicated the city, and it was smooth to attack the city and seize land all the way...... But he still felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.

Cheng Li is in charge of the institution of the Splitting Wood Academy, and all the soldiers of Meiyang County have been attributed to him, only knowing Cheng Zhongmou and not Ma Junhao. That's not all, there are more than 3,000 envoys under his command, most of them are Changshui veterans or people from Dongjun, relying on the armor and armed forces transported by Liangzhou to approach the soldiers of a county. And beside Cheng Li, Cui Jun, Du Ji, and even Bao Chu, the idle ranger who had personally asked him to resign, were all around him.

In the past, Ma Yue was the Jingzhao county guard or the nine secretaries of the imperial court, and in the end, he took the food and worshiped the position of the auxiliary state of the dynasty. He didn't have to worry about where his subordinates were from, and he didn't have to worry about rebellion, he had all the resources of the court in his hands at that time.

But now it's different, his own official position has obvious regional characteristics, Liangzhou Mu, and most of his reusers are Liangren.

At this time, attaching importance to the regional issue of the countryside inevitably became his top priority in addition to the war.

Although everyone was considered to be in good health, because the mountain path became more difficult to climb the higher it went, and it was still not enough to reach the summit until noon, Ma Yue had to order the array to make a fire among the relatively flat boulders in the mountain to cook and roast the dried meat and cakes they had brought with them.

When the armored sergeant was preparing the meal, Ma Yue led everyone to a place with a wide field of vision in the mountains, looking at the sea of clouds churning overhead, and his heart was extremely open-minded. Looking down again, the entire Jingzhao up to the Tongguan boundary is in full view. The square and square vast fertile fields are only a little bit in the eyes, the fields of different colors are painted into a beautiful pattern, the Weishui in the north is like a silver line connecting Sanfu, and the whole Weihe Plain has a large river in the north of the Nanlinxiong Mountain, a horse and a flat river. The surging Yellow River is in a bay to the east, and the Weishui River flows into it and rises down to the east, and a Xiongguan in the distance covers the rich Guanzhong area, which is called Tongguan.

Tongguan, called Hangu Pass, also known as Yuntong Pass, also known as Chongguan.

Although it is a pass, it is more like a long and narrow city, which is cut off between mountains and rivers, blocking the road between Kansai and Kanchu.

"Weishui in the north, mountains in the south!" Ma Yue looked at the towering city that appeared in the clouds and mist in the distance, waved his hand and said in the distance: "Just behind Tongguan, three years ago, Ma turned to Liangzhou Mu and was expelled from Sizhou. I didn't dare to look back, for fear that I would be unhappy by the county lieutenant of which city of these three auxiliaries if I was not careful, and send troops to get rid of me. Do you know how many people I have around me when I go back to Liangzhou? There are less than 4,000 soldiers and horses, most of which are all reinforcements brought out from Liangzhou by Ma Wan, as well as Dong Taishou's Flying Bear Army, which is really my people, only a few dozen people. ”

"I can't even bring back the corpses of Robeze, and I leave them to rot on the battlefield...... That's when I told myself, when I returned it, I would ride it again! Someone, draw me all the terrain I see! With his hair braided in the wind, Ma Yue pointed to the vast plain in front of Tongguan and said, "There, I want to thwart Yuan Shao's vanguard there!" Break through Tongguan! ”